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...movement may be getting a jolt from a hostile Supreme Court, whose ruling in the case of Webster v. Reproductive Health Services permits the states to place new restrictions on abortion. "Before Webster," says Susan Carroll, a political scientist with Rutgers University's Center for the American Woman in Politics, "there was a very real assumption, especially among college students, that the battle was over." That assumption is no longer valid...
...hope reigns supreme this year, as the Patriots have committed to improving the passing game with strong-armed quarterback Tony Eason and the drafting of tall, fleet wide receiver Hart Lee Dykes. New England tight ends received quite a jolt when they reported to mini-camp this summer and were told that they would be expected to catch passes as well as block this year...
...innovative educator. He thus had high hopes of muscling New York City's chaotic school system into order when he became its first black chancellor 14 months ago. But the transition from guiding 40,000 Minneapolis students to dealing with 940,000 in New York was a rude jolt...
Then of course, there's the time I called a woman to ask her to the formal. When she picked up the phone, she literally got an electric jolt in her ear from the receiver. Not exactly an auspicious beginning, but she accepted anyway...
...event last week should jolt all, whether Black, white or member of another minority, out of complacency about the implications of racism. Whatever exactly happened to two Black students who were taken off a shuttle bus and searched by police last week, the Black community has shown outrage at what they consider racist behavior on the part of Harvard and Cambridge police. Their response is merited by the larger systemic problem of which this incident appears only to be a possible example...